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Ivanka Trump to push for ‘maximum pressure’ on North Korea

PYEONGCHANG -- US President Donald Trump’s daughter toured the 2018 Winter Olympics on Saturday, the morning after telling South Korea’s president that she will use her visit to the Pyeongchang Games...

Feb 24, 2018
Foreign Policy
US will continue 'campaign of maximum pressure' on North Korea: White House

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea -- The United States will continue to put pressure on North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program despite a growing mood of reconciliation between the two Koreas, the ...

Feb 24, 2018
Foreign Policy
Ivanka Trump to push for 'maximum pressure' on North Korea

Ivanka Trump, US President Donald Trump’s daughter and a senior adviser to the White House, began her four-day visit to South Korea on Friday as the head of the US delegation to the closing ceremony ...

Feb 23, 2018
Foreign Policy
Ministry admits to omitting part of US troop cost deal sent to Assembly

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday admitted that a controversial part of the 2014 agreement to share costs for US troops stationed in South Korea was omitted from its report to the National...

Feb 21, 2018
Foreign Policy
Heavier tariff on Korean steel imports show Korea is ‘easy target’: experts

The US mulling imposing heavy tariffs on South Korean steel imports, ostensibly to reduce its own trade deficit with China, shows that the Trump administration has little consideration for its seven-...

Feb 20, 2018
Foreign Policy
FM Kang mulls attending UN human rights meeting

South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kung-wha is considering attending a meeting of the UN Human Rights Council to be held this month, her spokesman said Tuesday. "Things are still under review about ...

Feb 20, 2018
Foreign Policy
Moon calls for ‘confident’ response to US protectionism

President Moon Jae-in on Monday called on the government to respond to US trade protectionism and unfair demands with confidence, and to highlight such elements in dealings with the US. President Mo...

Feb 19, 2018
Foreign Policy
Ivanka Trump to visit South Korea this week

Another whirlwind round of diplomacy is expected on the sidelines of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics this week, with US President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump set to join the closing ceremony...

Feb 19, 2018
Foreign Policy
Ruling party leader meets chief of Chinese parliamentary foreign affairs panel

Choo Mi-ae, chief of South Korea's ruling Democratic Party, has called for China to play a greater role in resolving the North Korean nuclear stand-off during her talks with Fu Ying, chairperson of C...

Feb 17, 2018
Foreign Policy
Japan's new textbook guidelines renew territorial claim to Dokdo

TOKYO -- Japan renewed its claim to South Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo in its revised guidelines for textbooks unveiled on Wednesday. Japan's education ministry posted a draft version of the ...

Feb 14, 2018
Foreign Policy
S. Korea, Uzbekistan agree on further cooperation

South Korea and Uzbekistan on Tuesday agreed to further enhance bilateral ties and cooperation between the two countries, Seoul's finance ministry said. Finance Minister Kim Dong-yeon gives a lectur...

Feb 13, 2018
Foreign Policy
US says ‘ready to talk with NK’

The US is ready to engage in direct talks with North Korea even as it maintains its “maximum pressure campaign” on the regime, US Vice President Mike Pence has said, hinting at a shift in Washington’...

Feb 12, 2018
Foreign Policy
N. Korea key topic at forum of S. Korean, Japanese lawmakers

How to deal with North Korea was one of the main topics when lawmakers from South Korea and Japan held a discussion in Seoul on Monday, officials said, amid a thaw in inter-Korean relations spurred b...

Feb 12, 2018
Foreign Policy
[Herald Interview] Korea’s ODA needs better coordination: OECD DAC chief

Rising from the ashes of war with the help of overseas aid and transforming itself from a recipient to a donor country in nearly half a century, South Korea presents a leading example of how developm...

Feb 11, 2018
Foreign Policy
Moon rejects Abe's call to resume Korea-U.S. military drills

South Korean President Moon Jae-in has dismissed a call from Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to quickly resume South Korea's joint military drills with the United States, calling it a violation of...

Feb 10, 2018
Foreign Policy

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